Animal Liberation vs. Environmentalism: Spanish environmentalist leading the fight against country’s new animal rights legislation
ALVARO PENAS: Interview with Álex Lachhein, field naturalist, writer and environmental communicator... Álex Lachhein has worked in several…
Solidarity With Animals: Violence and Love
EILEEN CRIST: The animal economy, wherein animals routinely suffer truncated and brutalized lives, weaves massively through the global economy.…
‘Between Light and Storm’: How humans exploit and abuse the animal world
ELISA SHOENBERGER: In August, the Norwegian Directorate of Fisheries killed a walrus named Freya who had made her home on the marina pier in Oslo.…
THE DOGS OF WAR: The heroic activists struggling to save animals abandoned in Ukraine
SASHA MASLOV: As the first anniversary of the Russian invasion of Ukraine approaches, assessing the extent of the enormous toll on lives is…
THE MOUSE THAT ROARED: Can we assume consciousness or happiness in other animals?
KAREN DAVIS: A leading critic of the presumption of consciousness and emotions in nonhuman animals is Marian Stamp Dawkins, a professor of animal…
LOOK AND LISTEN: The screams and scratches of pigs struggling to escape slaughterhouse gas chambers
VIVA: Of the 10.7 million pigs killed in the UK each year, almost 90 per cent are stunned via gassing before being slaughtered. Pigs are lowered…
‘But Can They Suffer?’: The malevolence of meat
MATTHEW ADELSTEIN: With the upcoming farm bill that could determine the fate of lots of animals, it’s time to question our consumption of meat. The…
The Culture of Domestication: Why do we have ‘pets’?
RAMI GABRIEL: There are 900 million dogs and 700 million cats (both owned and feral) worldwide. According to a 2018 study, half of U.S. households…
‘All That Breathes’: A meditative documentary film about an Indian bird sanctuary that is full of soul-transforming magic
ELLEN E. JONES: The opening shot of All That Breathes (Sky Documentaries) comes into focus – a ground-level pan across an abandoned wasteland – and…
SPECIESIST WITHIN: Evidence that people choose to be skeptical about animal sentience
STEFAN LEACH, ET AL: Our relationships with other animals are governed by how we view their capacity for sentience and suffering. However, there is…